![]() Leaving her beloved home, Lyddie resolves to return. Jeremiah Stevens, a Quaker (a Friend in both senses), generously gives her $25 for the calf sired by his bull even though he is entitled to half of the $25 himself. Consequently, Lyddie sells their farm animals to neighbors. Some months later, she writes Lyddie and Charlie (age ten) that they must work to pay debts of their father, who abandoned the family years earlier when he went West to seek his fortune. Worthen that Judgment Day is imminent consequently, she flees with her two youngest daughters, Rachel and Agnes, to her sister's farm, leaving Lyddie and Charlie behind. A huge bear that charges through the Worthens' cabin door convinces Mrs. Thus offers today's adolescent reader an excellent opportunity to learn from historical fiction. Transcending this material goal, she learns self-reliance and becomes her own person. Forced to work to repay her family's debts, thirteen-year-old Lyddie journeys far beyond her home in her quest for money. ![]() ![]() Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us - or we find it not.ฤก991 young adult novel about an impoverished mid-19th-century farm girl who overcomes economic and social obstacles, travel serves as a metaphor for Lydia Worthen's spiritual growth. ![]()
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